The European Union and the euro: this is a marriage made in hell

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Euro signs are projected on the Pont Neuf bridge over the river Seine in Paris

Over recent weeks I have traversed the country debating whether the UK should leave theEU. I have been struck by the way that most speakers for Remain readily acknowledge that the euro is a disaster yet still argue that we should stay in the EU. Apparently, they regard these two as unrelated, or at least as separable.

Of course, in a simple sense they are right, because it is possible to be in the EU and yet out of the euro - which is precisely our position. But this separation is flimsy. The mess that is the euro goes right to the heart of why the UK should leave the EU.

First and foremost, it needs to be understood that the euro is the EU's creature. It didn't happen by accident, it was not...